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FACTS m FKW UMS
Denmark exports 2^».«O pound« of
hunejr a year.
The Jersey (Englund) potato crop thia
year amount« to 52,849 ton«, valued at
£233.280.
The statistics show that the average
number of |>ersoua to a family iu the
United States Is 4.7.
The Turkish minister of the nary la
•aid to be worth »12,000,000. Hla sal
ary is ».80,000 a year.
One of a number of homing pigeons
sent up from Nautes, France, boarded
a ship 1,000 miles at sea.
As to crime by aliens reports show
that the Americans In England are five
times as criminal as the Russians and
Poles.
“Camogaidlieact” la the name of the
game, somewhat like hockey, Invented
for the women of the Gaelic league In
Ireland.
Bayonet fighting is now a regular ex
ercise In the army, and It is quite as
good. If not better, physical exercise
than the old bayonet exercise.
The bishop of London has received a
subscription of »25 from an undertak
er, who described the gift as a thauk
offering “because trade hns l>een so
brisk of late.”
At the sale of the estate of the late
Whitaker Wright at Tokenlioiise yard
the other day some one offered £90,000.
“The wall arouud the estate cost £37,-
000,” said the auctioneer
A barrel with a capacity of 43.800
gallons has Just been completed for a
great wine firm at Schllteuhelm. on the
Rhine A banquet was given In Its In
terior to twenty four people.
The most frequented lake in Europe
Is the lake of Lucerne. Last year twen
ty steamboats plied on it and carried
1,529.000 passeiigerR and over 1,000
tons of baggage and freight.
The Australian detectives find foot
ball useful. Criminals will hide six
days In the week, but they have to
come out on Saturday to see the foot
ball game, and the police are on hand.
One discovery made by an exploring
party In Abyssinia recently is that the
river Gelo skirts the southermost ex
tremity of Lake Tata instead of flow
ing into the lake, as was hitherto be
lieved.
The Australian government has or
ganized an expedition to explore the
region between Lake Eyre and the
boundary of Queensland. This land is
said to be one of the worst deserts In
the world.
An engine driver was attending to
the machinery at Hays wharf, Tooley
street, London, when the ends of Ids
neck scarf were caught by the shafting,
and lie was drawn up thirteen feet
from the floor and strangled.
The Insurance companies have quot
ed 50 per cent additional for Insuring
the life of Prince Obolenski, who has
succeeded to the post of governor gen
eral of Finland in the room of the late
General Bobrikoff, killed by an assas
■In.
An English thief was arrested the
other day whose method was to Induce
little boys to take off their shoes In or
der to run a race and leave him in
charge of the shoes. When they re
turned, breathless, he and the shoes
were gone.
What Is described as the biggest sale
yet completed under the new Irish
land act Is reported from Mltchelstown.
The Kingston estate, which was tlie
theater of the lund agitation In the
days of Mr. Gladstone’s "Remember
Mltchelstown,” has been acquired by
the tenants.
A halibut estimated to be fifteen feet
in length was seen In the Plscataqua
river near Dover point recently by a
number of Dover people. The fish was
seen to Jump out of the water several
times and on every occasion made a
roaring noise which could be heard a
considerable distance.
The National Association of Car
riage Dealers, which recently con
vened in Boston, bad on exhibition at
that place an ancient vehicle that was
built in 1776 and which is still ns good
as new. It was built for Governor
Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut,
the original "Brother Jonathan.”
The cuckoo plays an Important part
in German superstition. If an old
woman wants to know how many
years she has to live or a young girl
when she is to be married all they
have to do is to go Into the woods on
May day nnd listen for the cuckoo. The
number of times it yaps is the answer.
Judge John Brindley of Lacrosse.
Wls., recently established n new prec
edent for Jurists by hearing a case in
the evening and appearing upon the
bench in evening clothes. The case was
an emergency, and the judge left a re
ception to convene court, going direct
ly to the courtroom from a friend's
house.
An Insurance doctor at Leipsic hns
collected facts which show thnt the
changes In the human blood vessels
(«TteiloskivTose; brought about by iln
use of alcohol, tobacco and other ex
cesses, Including overwork, cause 22
per cent of all deaths, whereas the
much dreaded tuberculosis is rcsponsl
hie for only 7 per cent In that city.
In 1900 the nmncksmen who collect
lobsters along the const of Maine paid
an average of 12.85 cents per pound to
the fishermen. The price Increased to
13 12 cents In 1901, and In 1902 the
price was 15.83 cents. Ijtst year’s price
was 17.16 cents. During these four
years the minimum price paid was 9
cents and the maximum 25 cents.
It ts claimed for Mlle. Carmen Sylva,
an elght-year-old singer who made her
first appearance In London the other
day. thnt her voice has one of the
greatest ranges of any living singer
■ nd rises to the top G. Mme. rnttl's
voice did not go beyond the top D,
Nils« E Hen Ranch Yaw's goes to the
top E and Miss Edith Uelenn can
reach the tiff> F,__________
Light nnd Dark.
Teas—Maud told me she was going to
bleach her hair. Fred -How indiscreet!
81» really ought to ke«p It dark.—Illus
trated Hit*
The •*•<■«,
Ml< Bench—I don't think he really
car« for Miss Dollartk Mr Trotter-1
XJiint li« has a platonic affection for
b«k but be1» vlolentjj In love with her
ftRW« money.—Fuck.
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our own State Kuighta who had had
the fruit ship)>ed here at great expense-
,1'hey were quite willing that both lo
cal and foreign visitors should enjoy
the display and sample it a* W»'W, but
they drew the line when it came to
carrying it home by the liasketful.
Now Mr. Luther BurbaRk, known
the world over as the “Wizard of Hor
ticulture,’’ has again wielded his mag
ic wand, and Is-hold u red poppy un
folds its satin petals at his bidding and
makes its initial bow to an admiring
public. This wizard of tlowerdom,
who loves every tree, plant and shrub
in the realm of nature, found a poppy
in the meadow that stissl out like a
freak among its surrounding kin, for
its little golden satin skirt was streaked
with red. That was enough for Mr.
Burbank, and little Miss Poppy found
herself transplanted to Jiis home near
.Santa Rosa, that is teeming with tlow-
eas. fruits, etc., in th” various stages of
experiments. For eight long years the
experiment with this variegated little
freak of the escholtzia family went on.
Year after year the seed from this
branch of the family was planted, ami
eagerly watched as they sent fortli their
buds and blossoms. If they showed
the slightest tendency to return to the
gold tint that- rivaled the rays of the
sun, off' came the flower and the red
was |adted and coaxed, watched and
tenderly cared for, and now the reward
has come, the transformation is com
plete. Mr. Burbank has a bed of sev
eral hundred of the poppie« with the
blossoms varying from pink to red or a
bright scarlet. The secret is out and
the surprise has been hailed with de
light by all flower lovers. It is a won
derful feat in nature. Hundreds would
have passed this variegated poppy, sim
ply wondering whether it caught the
last blush of the sunset clouds as they
sank to rest, or was it the kiss of a vel
vety gold and brown bee, who, intoxi
cated with tlie beauty of the rose, had
lingered long in its crimson petals ami
while whispering the story of its new
conquest to tlie poppy had shaken tlie
pollen from its gauzy wings that it had
brought from the heart of the rose.
They would have passed on ami possi
bly never have given it a thought.
Not so witli Mr. Burbank. Tlie moim nt
he caught sight of the flower the possi
bilities of a new poppy unfolded before
him, and he made it a denizen of tlie
plant life in his home, where he could
tenderly watch the outcome. Tlie tex
ture of the flower is unchanged. It is
just as rich and satiny and has just its
many petals, but no more than it did
in its own native heath. Tlie only
change is in its color. Before the scar
let poppy rewarded Mr. Burbank’s
efforts we liuil had several colors added
to the California poppy or escholtzia.
They ranged from the brilliant shades
of orange to lemon, then to cream
and fli^ally a pure white. They are
all beautiful, yet if we were called
u|s>n tomakeaselection,knowing that
the rest of the poppy family would lie
destroyed, it would not be the red, the
white, the cream or lemon poppies we
would choose, but our old favorite, the
pure gold or orange, California's State
flower, which is typical of the perpetual
sunshine of our own fair land. This
scarlet California ¡sippy lias already
been listed, accepted and registered in
the tloricultural kingdom of America,
and next season it will lie ready to be
gin its journeys abroad and mingle
with other floral treasures of the same
family, that have been so eagerly adopt
ed by flower-lovers all over tlie land.
How ¡ssiple can be guilty of such an
offense is a mystery to Polly, ami what
they are thinking about to place them
selves in such an unenviable light is the
query that arose iu many minds as they
saw the wholesale helping of them
selves to the choicest fruits California
had to otter. They certainly forgot
that they were invited guests of the
order and that it was anything but
complimentary to those who had pre
sented them with the tickets. Noone
could enter who did not |><>Hsessa ticket
or a badge, hence the (turtle* guilty of
this helping themselves to fruit from
the different tallies to carry away with
them certainly humiliated those who
hail complimented them by presenting
them with tickets or badge«. These
grown women reminded Polly of a lot
of children who have not hail the last
of raising and who will attend a party
and watch their opportunity to slip in
to the dining room after refreshments
have been served and fill their pockets
witli the remaining candy and nuts on
the table. No well-bred child will do
it, find no |s-rson of refinement who is
old enough to know better will slip
stealthily around as these1 people did at
the Knights Templar Conclave load
ing their baskets with things that did
not belong to them. ‘Tis well that the
majority of people attending were not
judged by tlie few who made their un
enviable presence felt.
“Esther”—Let your traveling cos
tume lie a golden brown with hat and
gloves to match. To lighten it up
use a touch of the “burnt orange” in
velvet, feathers or leaves combining
these rich beautiful colors. This com
bination is one of tlie popular fads in
fall millinery and costumes as well.
BRIEF REVIEW.
Not Afraid of Thirteen.
A good story on the so-called unlucky
13 is going the rounds which would
send “Superstitious Smith” to cover
for good, says the Baltimore Sun. It is
told in regard to the attractive Balti
more and Ohio Railroad advertisement
which recently appeared iu the Sun.
The first insertion was on Friday, May
13, and an ever watchful newspaper
man noted the fact, and also discovered
that there were 13 trains, running on
13 diff'eaent hours, and on 13 tracks;
that “hourly service” had 13 letters,
and “Camden Station” had 13 letters,
and also that “hour on the road” had
13 letters. The newspaper man in great
stress of mind rushed to the telephone
and called up William E. Lowes, the
passenger advertising agent of the Bal
timore and Ohio, to tell him of tlie aw
ful fact. After a few minutes figuring
Mr. Lowes replied: “Nevermind, old
Ixiy; you have 13 letters in your name,
and I have 13 in mine, and I was born
on April 13, on Friday; besides, the
president of the railroad is the thir
teenth, and his room is No. 13, Cam
den Station. I guess it will have to
go.” The advertisement ap|K*ar<sl on
page 13 of the Sun.
He Knew Nothing Of It.
There lias just occurred at Madrid a
c use that is extremely rare, if not aliso
lutetly unique, in criminal annals—that
of a man imprisoned on the charge of
murder, and being sentenced to death
and afterward reprieved without his
knowing it. The man, named Jose
Espero Cuellar, iiad, in circumstances
of great provocation, murdered a faith
less sweetheart, ami, although lie was
in jail, trial for the crime had lieen con
ducted without his being produced or
even knowing that tlie case had come
on. Even when sentence of death was
pronounced, nobody deemed it his im
mediate duty to inform the person most
concerned. One day, some time after,
reading a newspaper that had been al
lowed him, Cuellar there read the an
nouncement of his reprieve, and, peti
tioning to see tlie governor of the prison
learned for the first time all that had
happened.
Speaking of Mr. Luther Burbank re
minds me of a display made during
the recent Knights Templar conclave
in San Francisco, when he made such
an interesting exhibit in the headquar
ters of tlie Santa Rosa Commandery at
the Mechanics’ Pavilion. One of tlie
greatest objects of interest was the
Shasta daisies. There wasa line display
of these lieautiful flowers, ami again it
showed what cultivation and a thor
ough understanding of plant-life would
do. Many visitors both at home ami
abroad lingered over tlie lovely white
flowers with the golden heads. Tlie
display in everything else, both in fruit,
nuts and flowers, made a creditable
showing for this part of tlie country,
Sonoma county, where they were grown
and gave tlie Eastern ami Southern
visitors, as well as those from abroad, a
Her Parents.
very lasting and pleasing impression of
The mother of a young girl recently
the varied resources of this district.
Hundreds of little l>ags of walnuts ami secured a divorce from her husband
fruits were given away as souvenirs and married another man, tlie terms of
tlie decree providing that the daughter
from this and other booths.
spend half her time with her father
This souvenir question makes tn (w ho had also remarried) and half with
think of tlie unenviable light a numtier her mother. Meeting a friend of her
c* wouteti, young girls and children family after returning from a visit to
who evidently had their orders from one of her remarried parents, the little
headquarters at home, caused them one was asked “how she spent her
selves to lie seen. Every commandery time nowadays.” “Well,” she replied,
will. headquarters at the Mechanics’ “I epend a month vkithig my father
Pavilion had made an effort to have nnd my mother; then the next month
plenty of fruits, nuts, etc., to bestow I go on a visit to my mother and my
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upon the Eastern visitors. It was In father.”
tended, not only as a compliment to
Big Collection of Teapots.
the visiting guests, but as an advertise
A Washington woman has a collec
ment for each section of the country
tion of teapots large enough to fill a
which was presided over by the Knights
whole room. There are in this collec
ami ladies. Not content with taking a
bunch of grapes, a |>ear, peach or a|* tion over 300 pots of chinit, copper and
earthenware. Some of them are in the
pie, as the ease might lie, these peop'e
forms of dolls, monkeys, elephants and
brought empty baskets from home ai d
tigers, < »tilersare in the form of houses
went from table to table filling them
templesand flowers. Others still are 111
with choice fruits. They simply sw ept
everything from the tables in some the form of fans, walking sticks, bract
lets, bird* ami flowers.
tiooths. Talking and exis«tulating
against the injustice did no good, for
A caterpillar in a month will devour
they simply waited f<w an opportuni'y
6000 times its own weight. It will take
to go on with their depredations. Some
an average man three month liefore he
of them ap|>eared to lie atiove
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who would lie guilty of such an injus vats a quantity of food equal to his own
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tice. They were well dressed and did
not look so poverty.stricken that they
A w ell-know n oculist states that forty
would have to get their fruit by appro men and three women to every, 1000
priating it from the tables of the dif ]>ersons are color blind.
ferent Issiths, not only depriving the
In England ninety-nine towns own
State in a measure ot the advertisement
to visitors it would have been by the their own gas works, the average net
display ami the gift of the fruits, lot to income being »1,947,125 per annum.
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SOC IETY IN ENGLAND
POWER OF CASTE AND INFLUENCE
OF THE LANDOWNING CLASS.
The Nauiber uf Things Thai a “G«a-
tlemaa” Canaut Do WIOtuiat
Social Prestige la Tao UVRR1 hr
Far to Catalogs«.
An interesting book might be writ
ten ou the Influence of the English
landowning class. Even In these days
of ubiquitous manufactures, when to
look at a map of England la to wondei
how it Is possible for a landowning
class oven to exist, the social and po
lit leal Influence of that class is some
thing more thau maintained.
The ambition of every successful
Englishman is to have "a place In the
country,” to get a foothold on the as
piring territorial ladder, and the ranks
of the landed gentry are continually
being re-enforced, more so perhaps to
day than ever before, by recruits from
the industrial army. The Immense util
ity of the English country gentleman
will not be questioned by any one who
really knows England.
But at tlie same time It is equally in
disputable that the sort of life be af
fects the endless indulgence in sport,
the salmon stream, the grouse moor,
the hunting box. the pheasant preserve
and so on— Is on the whole one of more
or less harmless and often irresponsi
ble Idleness and that the neighborhood
in which be Ilves Is rarely apt to re
gard him as an apostle of strenuous
tiess.
The "country” everywhere stands for
leisure, and so long as the '’country”
continues to represent the supreme ob
Ject of an Englishman’s ambition and
his social ideal so long will England be
leisurely.
Again, in an old and stable land, with
social standards as fixed as the social
foundations and governed by a mon
archy, the conventions play an enor
mous part, and the conventions in Eng
land are all against hard work. It Is
the leisure class that rules, that makes
up society, that holds all the positions
men naturally covet.
A sort of “Four Hundred” atmos
phere permeates England. In America
one gets a whiff of It on Fifth avenue
and at Newport, but In England one is
never away from it. The number of
things, for Instance, that a “gentleman"
cannot do without losing social caste Is,
in England, so prodigious as to form
almost a schedule of forbidden In
dustries. There are some trades and
professions that are "respectable,” and
those that are not.
(Inly an Englishman knows which is
which, why a doctor ranks socially
above a dentist, why a man who sells
should be Irretrievably below the man
who manufactures, and he. the Eng
lishman, knows it by an instinct which
Is born In him and which he never
examines und so cannot define. Any
one who can tell why the merchant
should consider himself and be con
sldered by others the social superior
of the biggest storekeeper In the king
dom will be well ou the way toward
understanding England.
The daughter of a wealthy manufac
turer of kettles marries the owner of
tlie largest dry goods store in London.
Why should she be thought and spo
ken of as having married a little,
though only a little, beneath her? Per
sonally. 1 do not kuow. I merely ob
serve, without attempting an explana
tlon. that the man in the wholesale
business is more looked up to than the
man in the retail business, that while
the former is not averse to talking
about his affairs, the latter Is only too
anxious to "sink the shop,” and that
social position in England Is regulated
by a host of perfectly factitious and
conventional considerations more read
ily felt than expressed.
Such graduations exist of course to
some extent everywhere, but nowhere
are they so stereotyped, nowhere do
they strike so deeply, as In England. 1
have never yet been able to discover
an Englishman who had not the social
privilege of despising some other Eng
lishman. and the lower one penetrates
In the social scale the more complex
and mysterious and the more rigidly
defined do these lines of demarcation
become.
The point is that throughout England
the sense of the nobility of work for
Its own sake, if not actually lost, has
become so confused by the intrusion
of quite alien factors that the sphere
of action open to a young man of what
ever rank Is sensibly circumscribed.
The country, while democratic in form,
Is not democratic in spirit. It has not
accepted and does not subscribe to
that gospel of work which lies at the
root of American strength, American
success, American democracy.
Any one who lias looked Into English
trad« unionism must have realized how
largely It Is mixed up with class spirit.
The workingman who knows that his
employer drives down to the office at
half past 10. takes a couple of hours
for lunch. Is home again shortly after
5 nnd thinks himself somewhat of a
“hustler” If he is content with three
months’ holiday In a year Is not likely
to have a keen appreciation of the dig
nlty of labor. Ills Ideal Insensibly be
comes that of doing as little as he can.
of striving to reproduce on his own
plane his employer's mode of life and
of regarding work as an unpnlatable
Interruption of the real business of ex
istence. Hence the "ca’canny” policy
of English trade unionism.—Sydney
Brooks In Harper’s Weekly.
Sig«« «f Ge«!««.
"I reckon John must hav« been ent
out fur one o’ these here geniuses that
writes for the magazine«," said the old
man.
"What makes you think so?”
“Can't make money enough to git bis
hair cut an' would rather watch a star
than dig a well!”—Washington Star.
Thr««gh <«• Taleam*«.
L’pgardson-You were in a railway
car once when It was telescoped. What
was the sensation? Atom—It made me
see stars.—Exchange.
Of Co««*.
Tommy—Pop, what make« th« foun
tain play? Tomtqy’« Pop—TTi« Wat»-
works, my ton.—Philadelphia RacdH.
Tatlenc«—I« bar lu«b««* M fratta?
Patrice-No; h« VM «ol® out by th«
NEW SHORT STORIES
THE ALBATROSS.
He Scored Og Whistler.
It« Wonderful Flights aud Some Odd
Belief« About the Bled.
Due of the kee|H>rs at Windsor on
one «cession scored neatly off the late
Janie« MacNeill Whistler, who was
tusking a study of a picturesque clump
of oaks.
Mr. Whistler could not endure to
R«ie any one watch him while he waa
painting. He turned sharply to the
intruder with the fixed and angry
»tare peculiar to him.
“You oaf!” he exclaimed. "You
loutish clodhopper! Don't you know
better thau to stand there annoying
tue? What possible Interest can you
take In what 1 am doing?"
"Bless me,” cried the man. “don't
get excited, sir! 1 meaat no harm, but
I never in all my life, sir, saw an art
ist painting two pictures at ence!”
"Two pictures!” exclaimed Whistler,
bewildered.
“So I said, sir,” replied the keeper
quietly. "And I'm blessed, sir, If 1
don’t like the one you’ve got your
thumb through the best of the two!”
And he pointed to the great palette,
smeared with every conceivable tint,
that Mr. Whistler held In his left
hand.
Jack Vas Beagoaalble.
When Jay Hambldge, the artist, was
painting th« portrait of ex-I'reaident
Cleveland he spent some time as a
visitor at the family mansion in
I'rlnceton, N. J.
"The ex-president gave me many sit
tings, but one In particular,” said lie,
"made the picture. Mr. Cleveland sut
gravely In a big armchair talking. Lt
was early in the afternoon; his face
was unusually grave and lacked the
expression I wanted. A tap came at
the door, and In sidled bls son Jack,
the apple of hla eye.
" ’Now I wants my lesson In flshln',
father,’ said the lad.
“ ’But. my son, here is Mr. Ham-
bldge. the artist. We are busy.’
“ 'Oh, let him stay,’ said I.
“‘Very well,’ replied Mr. Cleveland,
and the boy Jumped between his fn-
Of all the strange creatures seen by
travelers uot the least Interesting Is
the wauderiug albatross. This great.
feulhered wanderer, sometimes mens
urmg seventeen feet from tip to tip ot
Its wiugs, will follow a ship for days
at a time. Some travelers aud sailor«
declare that they have seen a partlcu
lar bird fly for weeks at a time with
out ever being seeu to «light upon the
waves.
It uot merely follows the ship, but
wheels In great circles around It and
above It, high iu the air, as if to show
that it is not tired. Sometimes the
bird will be seeu to baug in the air
with its wiugs apparently motionless,
and the sailors say that tbeu It is
asleep.
Not ouly in pleasant weather will ths
albatross follow a ship for days aud
weeks, but through the most terrific
storms it will continue Its untiring
flights. In fact, to find an albatross
otherwise than on the wlug is like
finding a weasel asleep.
Once a year the female albatross files
away a few thousand miles to the
great, lonely Island rock of Tristan
d'Acunha, w hich lifts its desolate head
far In the south Atlantic, or to some
equally remote place, and there lays
one egg In the hollow of a fock.
The albutross has always been a bird
of mystery, and In ancient times the
people believed that these unwearying
sea birds were the companions of the
Greek warrior Diomede«, who were
«aid to have been changed into birds at
the death of their chief.
When America was discovered and
ships began' to sail abroad to the Pa
cific ocean, to double the Cape of Good
Hope and to explore tlie “seven seas"
generally, the old belief about the alba
tross had been forgotten by the sailors
nnd explorers, but In their long and
lon<*soine voyages over waters which
were cut by no keel but their own and
upon whose vast expanse they saw no
other sail but theirs the presence of the
albatross following the ship day after
dny became a great source of comfort
and companionship. So It came to be a
belief that 111 luck would follow any
one who killed one of these birds, and
thnt belief Is common among seafar
ing men of this very (lay. Coleridge's
famous "Rhyme of the Ancient Mari
ner” Is based upon this belief.
Though the superstition about the
killing of nn albatross bringing bad
luck is only a foolish one. It has served
a useful purpose for many years In
preventing the slaughter of these beau
tiful and gallant birds—the sailors’
friends and the landsmen’s wonder.
I p in dreary Kamchatka, that outly
ing part of Siberia which cuts Into the
north Pacific, the natives, never having
beard of the suiierstltlon about the al
batross. catch him and eat him. But
his flesh makes such poor food that,
after all, the legend may be said to
bold good, for one is Indeed in bad luck
who has to make a meal of him.—
Washington Post.
“Old
"IT'S UP AGAINST TH« BCX’KH."
tlier’s legs and proceeded to unreel a
fishing line from a spool. He threw It
across the room and out Into the ball.
" ’It’s against the rocks, father!' lit
shouted.
“'So it is, son,’ was the reply; ’jerk
It this way carefully, gently now;
don't disturb your fish. There you
are. You must have a bite now. Druw
It In this way, quickly, not too ex
citedly. And the ex-presldent looked
Into the boy's face with all the
warmth of a true fisherman ns Jack
pulled In some toy calk'd by him a
trout that he had bidden before th«
make believe fishing began.
"It was during this lesson that 1
got my Inspiration. I painted In the
glow of Interest and of expression
that won the praise of Mr. Cleveland’s
Intimates. But, as I told the family
afterward, Jack really did It. 1
didn’t."—Philadelphia Ledger.
Home”
Thoughts.
Don’t let your heart be troubled by
the man who comes back and tells
what wouderful success he has had as
a result of leaving his home town. It
Is well enough for the sake of polite
ness to listen to his stories of Immense
business deals or fabulous salaries or
wonderful offers which he was com
pelled to refuse because he was offered
still more by some one else, but don't
swallow the tales. The men who go
away and succeed do not need to tell
of tbelr success. Y'ou hear of their suc
cess. It speaks for Itself. You are do
ing better than the cheap monkeys
that have to megaphone tbelr success.
Attempt to follow their example, and
you will meet with disaster.—Atchison
Globe.
Statare «ad lllnrs«.
According to a paper read by Dr.
Shrubsail before tlie British associa
tion, sufferers from tonsilitis, rheuma
tism and heart disease are of a higher
stature, and sufferers from tuberculo
sis, nervous and malignant diseases of
a lower stature than healthy individ
uals.
It appears that blond sufferers from
pulmonary tuberculosis respond to
treatment better than brunettes, while
In diseases of the heart the positions
are reversed. It Is believed that In
successive generations of city life stat
Wkit He Hesembl««.
ure shows a progressive diminution and
Some years ago William T. Smedley that there Is an increase in brunette
boarded in the same bouse with a trails with each generation passing
young man who prided himself on his from rural to urban life. With in
likeness to the artist, though, truth to creasing length of residence there is
tell, he was very plain, while Mr. an increase of morbidity among the
Smedley was quite handsome, says different classes of lamdoners.
the New York Times. One morning at
brenkfast he turned to Mr. Smedley
Changed Hl« Mind.
and said:
A man of notoriously bad character,
“Do you know. I am thought very residing In a village, wished to emi
like you?”
grate. To obtain assistance from the
“Indeed,” was the answer, "1 cannot emigration commissioners one must
see nny resemblance.”
have a character, and the man accord
"Well, give me a good look now and ingly asked one from his neighbors.
tell me who I am like.”
Everybody was anxious he should go,
The artist looked at him steadily for any everybody therefore testified to
a few moments and then replied:
his excellent reputation. No one was
"Yon Jo«k only like the boarding mere astonished at this rc-ult than
house martyr at the steak.”
the man himself, and after looking at
his certificate, with Its long list of
Ne C*««e For Worry1.
signatures, “Well,” said be. "I had
"Ijibor saving Inventions never do no Idea 1 was so much esteemed In
any real harm to laboring men and the neighborhood. 1 thmx 1 shall
women.” said Professor 8. P. Langley, stay.”— London Tit-Bits.
the scientist and aeronaut. "They
who bemoan the appearance of lal>or
Agalaat Trceedeat.
saving device« are unwise.”
"De Riter Is building a cottage for
Professor Langley smiled.
himself in the mountains, I bear.”
"Such unphllosophlcal persons.” lie
"Yes, and for a poet he’s displaying
resumed, "should learn a lesson from an atrocious disregard of the fitness of
the stable cat Have you heard of the things. He's building right on the
stable cat? It sat on the horse's back.’’ top of a bill.”
“ ’Dear, dear,’ the horse waked.
"Wall?"
'Now that automobiles ore coming Into
“Well, by «11 the canons of ¡>oetry a
such fnvor I fear I shan't be wanted.’ cottage fn the hills ought to 'nestle.*"
•• ‘Nonsense,’ anld the stable cat —Philadelphia Press.
’Don’t carry on so, brother. The
mouse trap didn't do away with- me,
Yoanger Ge«er«tlon.
did it 7”* ’_______________
Judge-Gan you prove an alibi, Ca
Th« Exact Amoaat.
sey? Casey—No, your honor, I can’t,
“Yes,” said the man who bad been but me boy Patsy can do It for ye.
generous with his friends. "I've lost He's all trough bls arithmetic and
way up In algebray.—Cincinnati Com
faltb In humankind to some extent”
"To what extent?”
mercial -Tribune.
"Well, to the extent of about »1.000
Worn««’« Wag.
in block« of »5 and »10 at a time.”—
"Jack
sent
me a handsome mirror for
Philadelphia ledger.
a birthday present.”
"That accounts for the funny ques
••r«.
“Harfitippy tells m« h« never d«- tion he asked me last night”
"What did he ask youZ’
•taoy« « «raeipted bill.”
"If a woman ev«r got too old to be
“No. h«'a more Ukely to have Uem
frame« «nd hung * tn his parlor as pleased with a looking glass.”—Pitta
burg Gazette
cvrMItl*”—London Jbdy.
CHOICE MISCELLANY
The Anerle«« Oatrleh.
The encyclopedias describe the u«r
tricb as polygamous. In California,
however, be adopts American lustltv
tious and chooses but one wife A
shallow bole scooped out In the ground
serve» us a nest, where every alter
nate day an egg is laid. Such an egg!
Half a yard around the longest way
and tipping the scale« at three aud a
bulf pounds! A single egg would be
a breakfast for a large family, though
by no means an economical one. From
twelve to eighteen eggs are laid Then
the forty day sitting begins. In Which
the male assists. Taking ills shifts at
night, visitors seldom see him engaged
in this feminine occupation. Having
uiuny enemies in their wild estate, na
ture. with unerring foresight, has de
creed that the hen brooding by day
should mutch tlie sand, while tlie part
ner, who takes her place when the
alludes of evening ure drawn, is the
color of the night When a week old
the chicks are worth »25 apiece and a
pair of four-year-old ostriches »50(1.
Thia Is no wonder, for the hen. for
getting the «eusous In a land of per
petual sunshine, lays all the year
round instead of twice a year, as lu
Africa. Each bird produces every nine
months a crop of feathers worth about
»30. while the tourists who pay to see
them- and carry off their expensive
plumage as souvenirs form the largest
crop of all. -Sunset Magazine.
Problem ot Medic«! Etiquette.
It Is an ancient custom in Hungary
that when a medical candidate has
paaaed his examination with distinc
tion and the doctor’s degree Is con
ferred sub ausplctls regia he should
receive from the emperor of Austria
(king of Hungary) a ring bearing th«
Initials “F. J.” set In brllllunts. After
a certain time he Is admitted to present
his thanks In person to the sovereign.
In connection with this custom a curi
ous problem recently exercised the
mind of a young doctor who was serv
ing his time In the army ns a “on«
yeur volunteer." Being Invited to pre
sent hhnself before the emperor, he
was greatly puzzled how to do so. for
on the one hand as a private soldier be
ought to wear his shako, while ou the
other as a doctor of medicine be should
carry his hat under Ida arm. In bls
perplexity be sought counsel of hla
colonel, who after careful considera
tion delivered himself of the following
opinion:
"If the emperor speaks to you In
German, which Is the language of the
army, you must regard yourself as a
plain one yenr volunteer, and you will
therefore keep your shako ou your
head. But should his Imperial majesty
address you in Hungarian this means
that he sees In you a doctor of medi
cine rather than a soldier, and you
must therefore uncover your head."—
T.ondon Globe.
A« Kscltln« Kite Eiparluaeat.
Two military kites attached by steel
wire to a winch were sent up at au
exhibition In England, and. the wind
being strong, a man named Baker de
cided to go up on a third and lurger
kite, made of light canvas, with bam
boo and hickory wood framework. To
this was attached a cane seat. In which
the man snt. The large kite went up
easily along the wire, but at au alti
tude of 200 feet was blown to pieces.
Baker nnd the wreck were left dan
gling on the wire. Deprived of the sus
pending power of the large kite and
with the weight of the man depending
on them, the two smaller kites and ths
whole apparatus began rapidly to fall
The men at the winch worked In th«
wire ns fast as possible, but the "scout’'
and the kites came down at an alarm
ing rote, nnd at one time Baker turned
u somersault. He alighted on the root
of a villa and escaped without Injury.
Carefally Gnard Their Deed«.
The care with which the Creek Indi*
ans guard their allotment certificates,
patents to lands and other papers of
value has been the source of much
amusement.
These papers are never carried in •
coat pocket, as a white man would
protect them, but are carefully wrapped
lu tissue and placed Inside some large
receptncle, generally a satchel, but of
ten a gunny sack. Indians recently
appeared together at the Indian agen
cy lu Muskogee to make arrangements
for the sale of tbelr lands by the gov
ernment.
Each carried carefully
strapped over a shoulder ■ large meal
sack, apparently one third full of some
thing. However, when the wrappings
were removed only a single deed ap
peared In each of the bags. Kansas
City Journal.
A Coat nt M««y Shape«.
A Cape Town tailor has Invented a
Coat that can be turned at will Into a
frock, morning or evening dress coat.
The change Is effected by the use of
detachable and Interchangeable skirts,
which are fastened to the body of the
coat by an Ingenious system of lacing.
It Is claimed that In two minutes a
man can change a truck coal into a
morning cout or a dress coat by whip
ping off one pair of skirts nnd lacing
on another, and It In Impossible to dis
ffngiilsb the Joining from an ordinary
seam.—St. James' Gazette.
Mystery of « Battle««*.
At the battle of Jena the standard of
th« First regiment of Prussian hus
sars was captured by the French, and
the trophy han recently been discov
ered by a collector at I’otsdam In an
old curiosity shop. The purchaser
made a present of the standard to Em
peror William, who has Instituted a«
inquiry as to how It la thnt this stand
ard, which was captured on Oct. 14.
1806, by the troops of Marshal Lanno«,
came to 1>e discovered fn a Prussian
bric-a-brac shop ninety-eight years
after It was lost.
Tk« i>ia««itr.
The Wife I fully realize that I
ought to economize. Jack, but— Th«
Husband—But what? Don't you kno*
where to begin? The Wife—Oh. y««;
but I can't deride on the tin:« - X«WB
Topics.
Del«« Well Wit»««« 1«.
“Have you had brain fag yett" y«u(
FurMsh asked the rising auttme.
“No.” replied the letter. “J««t «<
priMent I don't need tM advertl»!«*”
—Cleveland Plain Deale«